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Robert Hammond
- Body of Sardoth
- (as Brooklands Green)
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- Crazy credits"Cybermen created by Kit Pedlar & Gerry Davis". There are no Cybermen in the story.
- ConnectionsReferences Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep: Episode 1 (1968)
Featured review
"It's not easy being green"
Charlie Chaplin's philosophy was that comedy is born out of sympathy and pathos. Of course Chaplin never made films about one-eyed spaghetti-headed aliens, but it's a lesson which Rob Hammond has taken to heart well. Sardoth is beyond rubbish - where Scaroth from City Of Death oozes genuine menace and ruthlessness, Sardoth is blissfully naive and childlike - and never actually recognises his own failings nor why he can't fit into small-town human society. Anyone whose sympathies lay with Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf is going to feel right at home.
Admittedly it's a little hard to convey just how funny this sketch is to those who haven't before seen City Of Death (and if not, why not?), but comic highlights which all faux-Whovians will assuredly all giggle at will be the bookshelf belonging to Sardoth's GP ("Where Does This Bit Go"), his dismissal of the art 'treasures' collected by his other selves as 'splinter junk' (including a DVD of the lost Fury From The Deep, complete with authentic BBC cover), and his attempts to raise money via a pub quiz machine with the aid of his splintered selves, none of whom can agree on the answers to the questions. It also has the worst Who-related joke EVER when Sardoth goes to break a five-pound note in the pub, but you'll have to have seen Julian Glover's own performance in the original story for it to make sense.
Even if most of the Doctor Who jokes go over your head, you can't fail to be amused by the sketch's dead-on sense of total self-assurance, mixed with a blithe ignorance of its own utter inconsequence, that genuine regional television programmes from the 70s and 80s would exhibit, as typified by the likes of the drunken snail from Nationwide. In this regard at least, Rob Hammond certainly knows his telly.
Admittedly it's a little hard to convey just how funny this sketch is to those who haven't before seen City Of Death (and if not, why not?), but comic highlights which all faux-Whovians will assuredly all giggle at will be the bookshelf belonging to Sardoth's GP ("Where Does This Bit Go"), his dismissal of the art 'treasures' collected by his other selves as 'splinter junk' (including a DVD of the lost Fury From The Deep, complete with authentic BBC cover), and his attempts to raise money via a pub quiz machine with the aid of his splintered selves, none of whom can agree on the answers to the questions. It also has the worst Who-related joke EVER when Sardoth goes to break a five-pound note in the pub, but you'll have to have seen Julian Glover's own performance in the original story for it to make sense.
Even if most of the Doctor Who jokes go over your head, you can't fail to be amused by the sketch's dead-on sense of total self-assurance, mixed with a blithe ignorance of its own utter inconsequence, that genuine regional television programmes from the 70s and 80s would exhibit, as typified by the likes of the drunken snail from Nationwide. In this regard at least, Rob Hammond certainly knows his telly.
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- ealadubh
- Apr 16, 2006
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